The 2010 and 2014 Military Doctrines of the Russian Federation, as planning documents for the armed forces, have been influenced and guided, both directly and indirectly, by the recent regional conflicts in Georgia and ...

The Czech national movement in Moravia has been ignored by historians as a topic for inquiry. Although Bohemia and Moravia have shared a similar historical trajectory and close ties, there remains a lack of English-language ...

How does media contribute to the ongoing debates about French identity in the increasingly multicultural France of the twenty-first century? This thesis attempts to address this question by examining French policies ...

This thesis explores how questions of Jewish victimhood at the Nazi concentration and death camp Majdanek were negotiated by Poles and Soviets during the immediate post-liberation period in Lublin from July to October, ...

The Belarusian government recently announced plans to construct the country’s first nuclear reactor near the village of Astraviec in the picturesque forest and lake region of northwestern Belarus. The ambitious announcement ...

In recent years much has been said both about Russia's status as a democracy, as well as the issue of falsification in Russian elections. While there is little reason to challenge the assertion that Russia's transition ...

Recent European history has been defined by the growth and development of the European Union. At first the focus was on the western European countries that helped to create the supranational structure, but in recent years ...

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The field of political socialization has been generally identified as a useful tool in the study of American political behavior. However, growing number of researchers urge for the expansion of the field due ...

The Autostrada A1 is a highway currently under construction in Poland. The Autostrada A1 will connect two major Polish ports on the Baltic Sea with industrial areas in the south of the country. Together with the construction ...

Russian, East European and Eurasian Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Currie, Gabriela; Buchanan, Donna A.(2010-03)

The recent political transitions and subsequent social tumult throughout eastern Europe
and the former Soviet Union have witnessed the establishment of new forms of ritual life as well
as the revival and transformation ...

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Russian hydrocarbon resources are a major source of energy for the European Union, natural gas in particular. Controlling energy flow gives Russia powerful leverage and Russia continues to use this to its ...

The presence of de-facto independent entities infringe on Georgia's traditional perception of its territorial integrity and importantly, inhibit the consolidation of its democracy. Imperative to an understanding of the ...

The coming to power of the Justice and Development Party has marked the start of a more pro-active Turkish foreign policy which implied a dynamic engagement in the Balkans, an area that had been dominated roughly for five ...

The late imperial period saw the development of a significant and substantial, although somewhat small, civil society in Kiev. After 100 years, the fall of communism gave way to increasing growth of the public sphere again. ...

This research explores the development of the status of women in post-Soviet Central Asia. The research shows that women in Kyrgyzstan are more actively pursuing opportunities to contribute to civil society than what is ...

My dissertation is dedicated to the symbolist-critic Zinaida Vengerova. I focus not only on the work of Vengerova as a critic, her primary public role, but also on her writing which demonstrates her conception and dedication ...